Category: brusho

A crafty friend of mine, Mark Gould, is an extremely talented man. He’s an accomplished mixed media teacher who has recently released his own stamps. I couldn’t resist and purchased one of them, called ‘Gypsy Rose’.

To colour the stamp, I used Brusho powders.
They have also been used to create the background on the canvas.

Confession time – I am not much of a stamper. I use them to create texture in the background but not often as the main feature of a project so this was quite a challenge for me since the blog hop was about mixing Colourcraft products with Rubber Dance stamps…

… but before I carry on talking about myself … and the project … make sure that you read till the end as there might be a giveaway mentioned…

At first, I was planning an art journal page but… I wanted to make something that I will be able to share with others so the final decision was to make cards, which I later donated to my local Scouts group (they have regular craft fairs to raise money for the scout hut) – two birds with one stone wink wink

I used the same two Brusho colours on both cards – Aquamarine and Yellow – but in reverse order. The colour pigments reacted with water creating watercolour shades.

Pretty and easy!!! And the Scouts loved them so… cant get much better than that, right?!

GIVEAWAY

One lucky winner will receive both a €25 Gift Certificate to RubberDance
AND a £25 Gift Certificate to Colourcraft!

Visit all the fabulous designers from both teams on each day of the hop

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Make sure you visit all the other Blog Hop posts – there is some awesome art to be seen!!!

I love playing with Brusho powders as you can never 100% predict the final result.

Today, I decided to go one step further in my play and use them on a waxed background (it created beautiful colourful droplets!!!) and mixed with the Brusho Thickener (it became a see-through glaze which I run through a stencil). All this topped up with some floral die-cuts with Architextures papers and … a wild garden it is!

I have been invited as a guest designer to play with metal and fabric embellishments from Xanderous Craft Stash and this is my second project for them – a small canvas on a deep frame.

To create the background I used Brusho powders but to create the spotty design I drew all over the canvas with a Brusho Wax Crayon to stop the pigment from soaking into the fabric. After sprinkling the powders all over the canvas, I sprayed them with water which created loads of colourful water drops – I left them to air dry as using a heat-gun would have pushed all together and ruined the effect.

You can see the whole background and close-ups of the project in the slideshow below:

I am not a painter … not even an abstract one. But I like to play with colour and Brusho powders are perfect for experimenting. I you like unexpected results, Brusho powders from Colourcraft are exactly what you need.

The pigments react with water and dissolve creating beautiful shades and tones.

Colourcraft is a UK based manufacturer of a variety of crafting products but I think they are most known for Brusho powders – the little pots of pigment magic.

I wanted to see how they would react with untreated canvas so I dug up a set of mini canvas tags that I got from Canvas Corp and started to play – you can see the step-by-step tutorial as well as a video in my post on the Colourcraft blog.